Подія первинного досвіду і філософія. Метатеорія досвіду в Канта і Квайна

Mykhailo Minakov

doi:10.22240/sent33.02.064

Abstract

The author argues that Quine’s criticism of Kantian analytical/synthetic distinction, as well as transcendentalist reductionism, is not entirely adequate. Furthermore, the author states that Kant’s and Quine’s theories of experience and cognition (transcendentalist and holistic) are based on a common dogma, the one of consistency. Taking into account their uncritical acceptance of experience as a system that is able to adjust new and old elements to each other, both philosophers have much more in common than Quine and his followers might have expected.

Book Chapter
10.1075/ill.17.09tab

Levels of iconicity in classical and modern English-language haiku

Apr 17, 2020
Elżbieta Tabakowska

This chapter analyzes haiku poems written in English, focusing on iconicity as a property of the genre, based on its formal and semantic restrictions. Iconic miming is argued to be an inherent aspect of poetics and Langacker’s theoretical concept of dimensions of imagery in his cognitive theory of language and grammar is presented as an instrument of analysis for the selected poems. The fundamental assumption which underlies the cognitive model of grammar is that language offers to its users alternate ways of construing conceived situations for purposes of linguistic expression, with individual parameters of meaning construal making up a set of dimensions of imagery. Apart from phonemic iconicity, iconic graphic representation and synesthesia, the author illustrates the poets’ use, and the readers’ potential interpretations, of cases of iconicity stemming from such aspects of imagery as the grammatical distinction between things and relations, as well as the oppositions between definiteness and indefiniteness, figure and ground, and temporal and atemporal relations. In conclusion, the author states that though the cognitive theory of construal was formulated as part of a theory of language, the model clearly finds direct application to the analysis of literary texts, with the genre of haiku providing a salient instance.